It was recorded by Ibn Khuzaymah in "al-Tawḥīd" (p. 153) through the route of Farqad ibn al-Ḥajjāj who said: I heard ʿUqbah ibn Abī al-Ḥasnān say: I heard Abū Hurayrah say: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. I said: This isnād is acceptable for supporting evidence, its narrators are trustworthy except for this ʿUqbah who is unknown. However, Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt," but the ḥadīth of Jābir mentioned earlier supports it. Know that this ḥadīth, like others concerning the attributes [of Allāh], must be passed on in its apparent meaning, without negation or anthropomorphism, as is the way of the Salaf. Their way is not tafwīḍ as claimed by al-Kawtharī and others among the negators, as explained by Ibn Taymiyyah in his treatise "al-Tadmuriyyah" and elsewhere. Tafwīḍ, according to them, is passing on the texts without understanding, while believing in their words! The implication of this is attributing ignorance to the Salaf regarding the most precious and sacred thing to them, which is the names and attributes of Allāh. Whoever knows this understands the danger of what they attribute to them. And Allāh is the one whose help is sought. Refer to the introduction of my book "Mukhtaṣar al-ʿUlū lil-Dhahabī," may Allāh facilitate its printing.

- "The lifespan of my community is between sixty and seventy years, and few of them surpass that." It was narrated by al-Tirmidhī (2/272), Ibn Mājah (4236), Ibn Ḥibbān in his Ṣaḥīḥ (96/2) in (the seventieth type of a part of it preserved in al-Ẓāhiriyyah), al-Thaʿlabī (3/158/2), al-Qaḍāʿī (5/2), al-Ḥākim (2/427), and al-Khaṭīb (6/397, 12/42) from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah who informed us from al-Muḥāribī from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr from Abū Salamah from Abū Hurayrah as marfūʿ. Ibn ʿArafah said, "And I am among the few." It was also narrated by Ibn Mandah in "al-Tawḥīd" (38/2) from Yūsuf ibn Mūsá who narrated to us from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Muḥāribī, and he said: